Young Woman with Cone-Shaped Skull Suffered Fatal Blow 6,000 Years Ago

Archaeology Magazine ^ | June 12, 2025 | editors / unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

Science News Today reports that archaeologists excavating a Copper Age cemetery in western Iran recently noticed the unusual skull of a young woman among the burials. Her elongated and cone-shaped cranium clearly indicated that when she was younger, she had undergone some type of skull modification, a process that usually involves the binding of a child's head with cloth during their formative years. The report notes that for many cultures across the globe, from the Central American Maya to the Huns of Eurasia, cranial shaping was a symbol of beauty, status, or identity. In this case, the researchers believe, it may have marked the girl as someone of significance 6,200 years ago. Upon further examination, however, they also noticed a skull fracture indicating that the young girl, who was not yet 20, had suffered a devastating blunt force blow to the head that certainly killed her. They suggest that although her skull bones were thinner and weaker as a result of the modification process, the head trauma was so severe that it would have killed her even if she had never been subject to the procedure. It is still unclear whether she was deliberately murdered or suffered some kind of accident.

[Steve Van Doorn]

This one has to much damage to tell if this is a "skull wrap" or mated Homo Capensis daughter. Homo Capensis had up to 40% larger skull capacity IE:NOT Wrapped)

The skull Wrap was in honor of the Homo Capensis whom where mostly royalty at this time.

[Texan5]

You are correct-head binding was practiced in societies in various areas of the world including what is now central and South America, and even on a Caribbean island or two-as well as parts of Eurasia and the Middle East. Children of the nobility got their heads bound with boards or tied tightly with cloth right after birth to make them into a strange ideal of beauty/nobility/intelligence, with a deformed skull-poor little kids.

The Chinese bound the feet of girl babies to keep the feet tiny by deforming them. Tiny, deformed feet were a standard of beauty for them-the girls grew up off-balance, barely able to take a few steps on their own-mostly they had to be carried around in a litter. That cruel practice only was exposed in the 1600’s when foreigners were trading in China and saw how cruel the foot binding was...

One of my cousins was married to an archaeologist-he was a Paleo-Indian expert-he told my 1st husband and I all about that head-binding when we participated in one of his digs in Southern Mexico on our vacation one Spring-there was one of those deformed skulls in a museum there, too-creepy looking...

[Salamander]

Meps!

[Steve Van Doorn]

said, "That’s why coneheads are now extinct"

Homo Capensis are still around but they've mated which shrunk their brain capacity from their ancestors.


Other characteristics:
They also have a ruff roof & upper and lower ridge of the mouth(ancestors had second row of teeth?)
Thinner bone structure. smaller jaw bone. Which makes the face smaller. I can go on.

[Fledermaus]

And we shall enjoy it

[V_TWIN]

Thanks for the info.....yes I’ve seen examples of foot binding.....horrific practice if you ask me.

[9YearLurker]

Ha ha!

[Texan5]

The biological/DNA evidence doesn’t support Homo Capensis being anything but just another Homo Sapiens-just one of us with a genetic deformity-like hydrocephalus-not a subspecies-revered or otherwise. There is no evidence of increased brain size, either-the skull is too thick on the specimens. But it is an interesting theory...

[Fledermaus]

Not much different than female models today

[Texan5]

It makes my feet hurt just to look at drawings of those poor women done at the time by artists of the time who traveled with the traders. But I don’t wear shoes-Winter or Summer- unless I’m at work, going on errands, hiking in the woods, etc so that binding stuff really makes me cringe...

[Texan5]

So true-I’ll do stiletto heels/f*** me shoes and all the other girly stuff if I’m going to a dressy restaurant, etc-but fortunately, I live in a rural area where the nicer restaurants are all-organic farm to table tourist traps-casual dress. A casual skirt and pair of sandals is okay. No way am I torturing my feet without a damn good reason..

[Fledermaus]

I’m not sure i want to know what F me shoes are. 🤔

[PTBAA]

That wound looks like it was caused by a Garthok.

[Texan5]

F*** me shoes are 4-6 inch high heels-so called because they part of the attire in a common male fantasy-so pole dancers wear them...

[Fledermaus]

Gotta kill the feet. It’s a butt lift thing I guess.

[Steve Van Doorn]

yes. I know. All none sense.

haplogroups U2e H1a H2 (IE: female mitochondria)
This was from Ancient Paracas People Of Peru Including DNA Results And Blood Tests. This should show black and Caspian seas/Caucasus mountains with similar results
https://youtu.be/mz0SG-rLehs

interesting theory... Officially they are categorized with marfan syndrome
But that does account for many issues they have
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfan_syndrome

[Texan5]

Seems extreme-the jeans I wear to work are advertised to do that-I buy them online at Amazon-a lot cheaper and more comfortable to wear than stilettos-I don’t think the jeans do any lifting-but I’m a slender person, so I doubt anyone would notice...

[crusty old prospector]

Have you considered a pair of SAS or Hoka? I hear Dr. Scholl’s was on the catwalk recently with some cutting edge footware.

[Texan5]

There have been a few basketball players-male and female-in recent years who have Marfan Syndrome...

[Steve Van Doorn]

"Ha ha!"

you could talk with these people today. They still exist.
you wouldn't even know it except for these unique features.
They know they have odd features. But you wouldn't unless you're aware of their features.